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Thanks for explaining that Rainer, I have a Nady Starpower 1 Mic (since im barely going to use one I got a super cheap one) so I'm assuming that isn't a condenser microphone and that'll be fine. I'll be hooking it up to my Kaoss pad anyways I think, and I havent heard anything about that having an issue with condenser mics (though please let me know if there is) I don't think I'll need any 1/4th to RCA converters since everything I own except the soon to be owned firebox uses RCA or 1/8th inch headphone input, so i'll just be using a lot of RCA female to 1/4th inch male. I'll get those ones then since I don't see any reason to get the more expensive ones if I get the same sound quality. Sorry about sending these emails in HTML. I use gmail's web interface exclusively and I don't know of a way of specifying plain/rich for different addresses so I'll just set my default to plain text since I never use html in emails anyways. Thanks :) -Nick On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de> wrote: > Nick, > > about the phantom-powered input thing (I'm explaining this from the >bottom > up, just to avoid you have to ask more questions because you're >confronted > with incomprehensibel technobabble again): most microphone inputs on > consoles (and also on interfaces, like the Firebox) have a feature called > "phantom power", which is used to supply a voltage to microphones which >need > them (condenser microphones). Other (modern) microphones (like e.g. a >SM58) > which don't need that supply are unaffected by it, hence the term >"phantom". > (see also e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_power) > > Now if you connect your audio interface to a microphone input with >phantom > power switched on, what will happen depends on the interface you're >using. > In case of the Firebox (and I assume of most other interfaces), you >damage > the output. > Note that this only applies > a) if you connect your interface's outputs to a microphone input > (e.g. in live situations) > b) you don't use a DI box between your interface and the >microphone > input, and > c) phantom power is switched on on the input you're connecting to. > Basically, it will typically happen in live situations when the sound guy > has for some reason turned on phantom power and you forget to explicitly > tell the sound guy to check that phantom power is switched off. > > About your RCA to 1/4 converter question: > > I found that for transmitting line level signals in live situations (and > non-super-high-end home recording situations as well) is a simple task >with > regard to the cables and connectors involved. The problem you may have > usually relates to mechanical stability of cables and plugs (and this, of > course, especially in live situations). The converter plugs you're >looking > at look ok to me. One thing I found is that you should stay away from > female-1/4 to male-RCA converters, they are not reliable mechanically. > > Best, > > Rainer > > ps: one thing I noticed in your messages: Looper's Delight is a "plain >text" > newsgroup. You're sending all of your emails as HTML text; you might try >to > change that in your email program. > >